GTX 960 | Worth a Buy in Late 2020?

Testing 14 popular games on the GTX 960 2GB graphics card. Released in January of 2015 for 199$, it was a mid range card based on the Maxwell architecture.
These days it can be found on the used market for less than 50$, but is it worth buying in 2020 at that price? Let's find out!

⏱ Timestamps ⏱

Intro, Specs, Stuff: 0:00
GTA 5 - 1:28
Watch Dogs Legion - 3:49
Apex Legends - 5:25
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 7:14
PUBG - 9:18
Assassin's Creed Valhalla - 11:45
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider - 13:09
COD Black Ops Cold War - 15:04
Horizon Zero Dawn - 16:31
Fortnite - 18:36
Rainbow Six Siege - 19:59
Battlefield V - 22:11
COD Warzone - 24:51
Crysis Remastered - 27:24
Conclusion - 28:43

🔧 SPECS 🔧

◽️ AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
◾️ Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 2GB - MSI Gaming OC
◽️ 16GB DDR4 3200MHz (2x8GB CL14)
◾️ Sandisk plus 120GB SSD - Windows 10
◽️ WD Blue m.2 sata 1TB SSD - games
◾️ Seagate 1TB HDD / 2TB WD RED HDD - games
◽️ Toshiba 750GB HDD - recordings
◾️ Asrock B450 Pro4
◽️ Corsair RM750i 80+ gold
◾️ Sharkoon M25-W Case

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[jinxedtech]

Any graphics card is worth it, just depends on the price.

[veryyrude]

I just realized how poorly optimized Assassin's creed Valhalla is

[lemming]

That 960 is such a beast! I remember considering it a lot. The 1060 is also a beast! Nvidia, you used to make such good budget cards, what's with all the high end cards you keep releasing?

[gerolori]

I had this gpu for 5 years now, the 2Gb version. For me is the perfect gpu, in these years I've been playing some variety of games ranging from a bit of Far Cry 4, to 850h of csgo, 500 on tf2 and recently Overwatch in 1440p above 85fps to benefit from my 75Hz screen. Nothing to say about it, it has been beautiful, veeeery silent and cool, I chose a custom fan profile that ramped up only when reaching high temps and I never got above 75 with it still being quite (other components set the noise much higher, so I couldn't really hear it at all). For esports gaming it' more than enough, and it's worth mentioning that lately I've been into streaming (especially ow) and I've been able to upload a crisp 720p60fps with 6000kbs of upload (thanks to my connection, but the graphics card handled it really well) with no dropped frames after a lot of tweaking in obs and in ow (capping the frames to 85 in order to let some room for obs to use resources as I used Nvec as the decoder).
Conclusions, if you don't set you standards too high, you're a "retro" or not so up to date gamer (csgo and tf2 are pretty old now), I should highly recommend this gpu, if you can find a bargain on it consider purchasing, it's well rounded. As you said the 4gb version should keep up a bit better with new games but I personally never tried. Hope I helped someone that was struggling to make a choice, have a nice one :)

[brxgvs]

Thank you so much for the test. I'm from Russia and I have the same graphics card, but nowhere could find tests with new games. You're the only one who helped me. Thank you so much again. I apologize for the errors in the text if they are present

[rahulr_]

This guy was silent at the beginning of all videos for 4 yrs...but now, he is 🔥

[anupamraj]

21:12 "These new comers are getting smarter and smarter everyday" Honestly one of the funniest line I have heard in a while( with context)

[numa]

I don't even have a graphics card but I've been watching you for almost a year lol

[alexxW]

Got the Strix 960 2GB with 50$ in june '19. If you can't find a RX470 for 60 bucks, stay under 50 & go 960 2GB, or even 4GB with a bit of luck. Around 50-100 US dollars you'll find best performance/$ ratio for used GPUs

[bal]

I bought this card in Q4 2014, still have this card till today 2021.
For game pre 2018, it will work just fine. latest AAA game i need to set the settings lower for those sweet fps.
960 still a beast !

[jaff]

You are very lucky. You saw all Pubg's bugs in one match :D

[notprofessional.]

For a 2015 graphics card this runs surprisingly well!

[Zesmas]

nice to see the 960 doing good in 2020, i use to have that card in my system. the 4gb version.

[ProfessorSpace]

i’m currently using the 960, and i’ve had my pc for atleast 5 years. it’s insane the frames it gets in some games, i swear i got a used one aswell because i only paid £70 lol

[graovizir_]

Really worth, principally for people who don't mind play 720p, it will gonna work ok for the next 3 years

[ormorecharactersmaybe]

TF, I was searching for this exact GPU right now and somehow you made a video on this very exact moment!
Thank you!

[CoolTI-Daniel]

Great card. I had one, the 4GB variant.
I gave it to a client of mine who was in need.
Today the damn thing goes for 160 to 200$ on marketplace which is insane.

[EnigmaticRecluse]

Gpus are only good when the price is proportional to the performance

[MudSluggerBP]

Just bought this exact same card today lol. Playing Forza Horizon 4, medium to high settings at 1080p and getting a solid 60fps 🤟🏻🤟🏻

[xxdigbyzzxYT]

bro i leave for barely any time and you're well over 100k, holy shit